City Journal, maybe the best investigative publication in America today, provides a difinitive look at the budget problems in California here.  It yet another case of runaway unions that have managed to wreck the finances of many cities and states throughout the land, as well as the federal government.  How we get control of these monstrosities is the task of all levels of government and will probably determine who will be the next POTUS.  It cannot be Obama for the country can hardly take four more years of expanding government budgets at the national level.  If we look for those with a record of at least controlling spending, if not rolling it back, Mitch Daniels, governor of Indiana comes to mind.  His record has been highlighted in a previous post.  It appears he has a grip on the bureaucracy in Indiana and has managed the recession very well, thus far.  He does not appear to have the charisma associated with, for example, an Obama, or even Reagan, however by the time we get to 2012 the country may be ready for another Calvin Coolidge.